Generate java classes from WSDL through java program

Question

I used wsimport command line tool for creating classses but I want to do it from the java code. Any idea?

Answer 1

You can use the wsimport ant task programatically.

You can do this by using the task class - com.sun.tools.ws.ant.WsImport. Instantiate it, set its properties (as defined on the task documentation), and call the execute() method.

Answer 2

What you are trying to achieve is not typical Java Web Services flow. But you can achieve this with dynamic JVM based Groovy language using GroovyWS module.

Answer 3

It is possible to call the WsImport main() method:

import com.sun.tools.ws.WsImport;

...

String[] args = {"put", "your", "arguments", "here"};
WsImport.main(args);

I think that this is what the Ant task does.

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Update: I'm not sure to understand what you're trying to do (and I don't think that you want to generate source code and compile it during runtime).

If the question is actually about doing dynamic invocation, JAX-WS's dynamic invocation interface (DII) is the javax.xml.ws.Dispatch object. Check JAX-WS's dynamic Dispatch interface.